Jim Branca
Jim Branca is a singer-songwriter-guitarist who uses his home in timeless blues as a launching pad to create music that embraces classic soul, jazz, gospel, funk, folk and rock traditions, while discovering his own mission and unique voice in the world of modern music.
A seasoned and in demand showman and storyteller, Branca has racked up credits that range from session work and touring the Gospel and Blues circuits in the deep south, to performances with the Broadway musical cast of "PumpBoys & Dinettes" at the Las Palmas theatre in Hollywood.
After transplanting himself in good Vermont soil 10 years ago, Jim has sown a lot of creative seeds. He's been named "Best Blues Artist" by Good Citizen Magazine's Critic Poll, was 1st place winner at Advance Music's "Guitar Summit" showdown, and hosted the much loved "Howlin' @ the Moon" Roots Radio hour on 104.7FM WNCS.
Branca plays nothing but original music. Of course some of it was written by other people, but everything he covers he makes his own. His last Band & CD project: "Bloozotomy - Ain't Dead Yet!" gathered national and international rave reviews, a spot on "Drew Carey's HiFi Club" and airplay around the world on stations as far away as Greece, (where it hit #3 on the charts) Australia, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Russia and France.
These days, Jim is busy creating a stir with his new CD: "JIM BRANCA - LIVE" which captures the lucid Branca's firey magic as it occured one winter's night at the famed "Nectar's" in Burlington VT.
Jim has worked with, and/or shared the stage with such artists as Little Richard, Roomful of Blues, Brenda Russell, Corey Harris, Peter Wolf, Andre' Crouch and the Disciples, Eddie Shaw, Susan Tedeschi, Deborah Coleman, Mighty Sam McClain, Johnny Sansone, Jon Fishman of PHISH, & NRBQ to name a few...
Yet to witness Jimmy belting out his OWN sweet tunes, leading his OWN divinely inspired band of stellar sidemen into a sweating soulful frenzy, is to witness a shaman-like re-birthing of the blues - a force of nature to be reckoned with INDEED!
:: Discography ::
2004 - Jim Branca: Live -
1998 - BLOOZOTOMY: AIN"T DEAD YET -
1994 - BLOOZOTOMY -
:: Contact ::
Website: http://www.jimbranca.com/
Email: jbranca@webtv.net